Bad Bosses Are Hard on the Heart

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"Stress-related diseases are a large problem in our society," Nyberg said. "The workplace is one area in which stress occurs and thus can be reduced. This study suggests that managers have key roles in determining stress-related factors at work, which means that psychosocial work environment interventions could be directed towards managers in order to reduce stress in employees," she said.

Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow is a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He said a number of studies have suggested that stressful work environments boost workers' risk for cardiovascular events.

"However, none of these studies have demonstrated causality, and it remains entirely unknown whether making these types of changes in the workplace would produce favorable effects on cardiovascular health," Fonarow said.

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A related report -- this time in the Nov. 25 online edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health -- finds that taking sick leave from your job for mental health raises your risk of an early death.

"People who take medically certified absence spells of one week or more have a 60 percent excess risk of early death," said lead researcher Jane Ferrie, from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, U.K. "This excess risk is associated with some of the commonest diagnoses for sickness absence, in particular mental disorders," she said.

For the study, Ferrie's group collected data on more than 19,000 French public utility workers, aged 37 to 51, who took part in the GAZEL study.

The researchers found that from 1993 to 2007, 902 people died, 144 of them women. From 1990 to 1992, there were about 12,500 medically certified sick leaves lasting seven or more working days, involving 41 percent of the employees. These employees were 60 percent more likely to die early, Ferrie noted.

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